Speaking on BBC Radio Wales’ Sunday Supplement programme, ahead of an event in Cardiff to mark the plight of her sister-in-law, Dr Jones said: “It would be nice if someone high up in the government publicly condemned this.

“We’ve had the shadow foreign secretary publicly condemn what’s happened to Nazanin but nobody from the government.

“This is a terrible miscarriage of justice and everybody can see it but the government hasn’t stood up and said that yet.”